self-entitlement, of being able to lash out at will, be able to ignore the facts and the law. making a statement in that letter regarding the crown prince that he may or may not have ordered the killing, what does it mean? that is a stunning sort of statement by a president of the united states that the reality is unimportant if a leader of a foreign country orders an assassination? that s the type of behavior that people are becoming more and more uncomfortable with. senator jack reed of rhode island. we really appreciate you being with us. thank you very much brianna. just ahead, the president asked about keeping troops on the border during the holiday despite the fact there is no caravan emergency. hear his response it s really interesting. a rare rebuke by chief justice john roberts about president trump. hear what roberts just said. makes more holiday deliveries to homes
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an msnbc contributor. thanks for being here. a lot of folks will say that france s president is trying to manipulate the president, trying to play the long game, by being very chummy, in a way that angela merkel cannot or teresa may cannot, but if he walks away leaving with nothing, does it show, one, that the president is just stone minded and is not going to move on these issues? or that ultimately that he just doesn t have any real influence? i think we re about to find out over the next couple of weeks, president macron gave president trump offramps, he gave him an offramp about keeping troops in syria for a while, because it s part of a larger strategy to deal with iran and to build a political settlement in syria. he gave president trump an offramp on the joint conference of plan of action, the iran deal,ing let s leave that
interests in afghanistan has been defined is that afghanistan should never be used again as a place, a safe haven from which terrorists can plot international attacks. you cannot say that our 14 years in afghanistan have ensured that in some ongoing way if we left. if that s the interest we ve got to secure, then maybe we ll have to be there forever in order to secure that interest. it s very hard once you say that s what we re doing there. when you look though at the cost in afghanistan, i mean $685.6 billion according to the congressional research service, the cost, and then when you look at the amount of troops overseas, you mentioned drift. we still have 53,722 troops in japan, 44,660 germany, south korea 28,579. now we re talking about keeping troops in afghanistan. just the cost and the amount of
i think the hope is, definitely, that the russians get themselves into some kind of quagmire, learn their lesson, and pull back. but the problem is, there s going to be so much wreckage in the meantime, that the country is going to be in a worse situation and more refugees. and as was mentioned, the saudis. they re apoplectic about this, that we are going off the russian state, they re going after theest are. o opposition, and they are dumping into all islamic groups there. so the tension is going up rather than lessening. so this could get a lot worse, erin. it could get a lot worse. i know you ve been incredibly concerned about a broader war that could happen, if u.s. and russian planes, for example, were to collide. president obama, in the meantime, bob, says he s keeping troops in afghanistan, a place you ve spent a whole lot of time. and he says he s doing it explicitly to prevent terror attacks on americans. will it make a difference? no, it s not going to make any differen